The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Linda Herskowitz

Linda Herskowitz is a freelance writer. She is a former staff writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Providence Journal (R.I.) and received a master’s in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism. She lives in Philadelphia with her two sons, Daniel and Ezra.

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Lillian Laser Strauss

Lillian Laser Strauss performed pioneering work in public health and child welfare in Pennsylvania, became a lawyer at age fifty, and, in the midst of active legal advocacy for public health, died suddenly of a heart attack at age fifty-six.

Ruth Hagy Brod

Ruth Hagy Brod was a versatile and peripatetic career woman who worked for nearly fifty years as a journalist, publicist, literary agent, television host, and government antipoverty official.